MarsEdit to continue development

At the Drunkenblog event this weekend, Brent Simmons announced that NewsGator …

We're still recovering from the bacchanalia that was the DrunkenBlog event in Chicago, but I just wanted to report an announcement that was made during the panel discussion. Brent Simmons—who recently sold his products NetNewsWire and MarsEdit to NewsGator—let those in attendance know that he and NewsGator would be continuing development of the popular weblogging client based on strong reactions from users.

For a brief moment, MarsEdit was under consideration of being dropped altogether, handed off to some other developer, or even open sourced. It looks like the outpouring of support from loyal MarsEdit users has convinced Brent to continue developing the application. Brent also made mention of hiring another developer to help work on the application, but didn't have any specifics for who that person might be.

P.S. I would also like to let everyone know that Wil Shipley's ass is "hard like a rock." That is all.